An interdisciplinary seminar in Literature and Cultural History 1780-1830

Romantic Realignments is one of the longest-running research seminars in Oxford.

Past speakers have included Marilyn Butler, Gerard Carruthers, David Chandler, Heather Glen, Paul Muldoon, Philip Shaw, Fiona Stafford and Peter Swaab, to name but a few.

All are very welcome to submit an abstract — we aim to provide a friendly 'workshop' setting in which speakers can try out new papers as well as more finished pieces, and in which lively discussion can flourish.

Professor Porée's interests are incredibly varied. His main research areas are Romanticism and contemporary British and postcolonial literature. In the field of Romanticism he has written a book about de Quincey and worked on Byron, Keats, and Burns among others. In other areas he's written a book on Salman Rushdie and worked on Kazuo Ishiguro and Graham Swift. He has coedited a collected edition of Robert Louis Stevenson translations for the prestigious Pleiade collection and translated texts by, amongst others, Stevenson and Conrad.All are welcome!

14/11/2007

“Now is the time to cherish a glowing energy that may rouse into actionevery nerve and faculty of the mind”: John Thelwall, Radical AnatomistMary Fairclough, University of York

Judith Thompson calls Thelwall “the silenced partner” of Wordsworth and Coleridge. As well as writing poetry and generically experimental prose he was one of the most important and prominent radical leaders, and one of those charged with high treason in 1794. His politics took many forms including, arguably, his contribution to medical debate about the “vital spirits”.